The 39-year-old San Francisco-based Kerry Laitala is unquestionably one of the most inventive and original experimental filmmakers on the American scene today. An expert in optical printing and hands-on techniques such as photogram and hand processing. She specializes in re-shaping ‘found’ materials into 16mm & 35mm handcrafted short films that embody and celebrate the same qualities of film that made the early cinema going experience fascinating. She is primarily inspired by avant-garde filmmakers like Phil Solomon and Paul Sharits and her work conveys a similar affinity for the textures and physical properties of the medium. But it exudes a more pronounced sense of decay and frequently draws upon a biological/medical aesthetic that reflects her many years of work in the medical industry. Haunting visual images merge with original other-worldly soundtracks to create a trance-like experience. An experience that probably reaches its peak with the 3D film section that ends the program Muse of Cinema ...